Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Gothic Church, Northern France

1832

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Paris and Environs Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 175 × 127 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D24389
Turner Bequest CCLVII 113

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with a view of a small but highly ornamented Gothic chapel on a street of country buildings. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of the towns in those regions. The church appears again on folio 112 recto (D24387; Turner Bequest CCLVII 112).

John Chu
January 2015

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